VietnamLiem Le (Lê Quang Liêm) is a Vietnamese grandmaster, born in Ho Chi Minh City in 1991. He began competing in youth championships in the early 2000s and was awarded the grandmaster title in 2006, at the age of 15. He later played college chess for Webster University in the United States, where his team won the President's Cup in each of his four years from 2014 to 2017.
In 2013 he won the World Blitz Championship, becoming the first Vietnamese athlete to hold a world championship title. He won the Asian Continental Championship in 2019, the first Vietnamese player to do so, and won the Biel Grandmaster Triathlon three years in a row from 2022 to 2024. At the 2012 Chess Olympiad he scored 8/10 on board one.
